Co founded Instagram, the photo sharing app, with Mike Krieger in 2011 and sold it to Facebook for $715 million in 2012 and remained in charge as CEO.  Following it's launch, the app became one of the fastest growing applications ever gaining 80 million users in less than a year.

Instragram was born after Kevin's wife Nicole commented while on holiday that her camera phone photos weren't good enough quality to post online.  It only took one day to develop Instagram's first filter, X-Pro II and to post an image of a dog and Nicole's foot on an early version of Instagram.

2015: Instagram has over 400 million users who post over 80 million photos a day.  One of the most popular Instagram pictures ever was of Kendall Jenner's hair arranged in heart shapes, it has been "liked" over 3.1 million times

Spent a term in his 3rd year at Stanford studying photography in Florence.  He was told to replace his Nikon with a plastic Holga camera to take square pictures.  This became Instagram's trademark.

Prior to Instagram, he was part of the start up team Odeo, which later became Twiiter and he also worked at Google for 2 years.